> Your point about needing to erase all memory of the experience to not get mental illness is very interesting. I actually didn't express that very well. I kin

> Your point about needing to erase all memory of the experience to not get mental illness is very interesting. I actually didn't express that very well. I kind of meant that if you were to erase the mental illness, you've effectively erased the whole experience. Horrible torture isn't something you just leave behind you the day after. The influence it has is almost necessarily mental illness in some form or fashion. If anyone did go through horrible torture voluntarily, I would expect they would do it to know what it was like. And mental illness is part of what it's like.